Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: Sicario: Day of the Soldado presents a uniquely ill-timed new take on the old trope of lawmen trying to […]

A Kid Like Jake is a nice picture – a very fucking nice picture indeed. This is a big part of the problem with it. Nice pictures of this particular sort are also very smug, self-satisfied pictures, in the absence of virtually anything to be smug or self-satisfied about: their niceness is wielded as a […]

A review requested by Not Fenimore, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Of Mel Brooks’s first four feature-length comedies, which are also his four best, 1974’s Blazing Saddles is […]